Comments by vpwest

  • ad personam

    (Latin) (an argument) designed to attack the person’s ethos; it differs from ad hominem which attacks a person’s logos

    July 10, 2009

  • (Français) a witty remark or telling retort which comes to mind only after the occasion for its use has passed

    July 8, 2009

  • (German) central Europe

    July 8, 2009

  • (Latin) an accidental error in writing

    July 8, 2009

  • (Latin) trying to explain something little known by referring to something still less known

    July 8, 2009

  • (Latin) a woman who is physically a virgin

    July 8, 2009

  • by virtue of the thing done, irrespective of the merit of the person doing it (mainly used, in canonic law, with reference to the sacraments)

    July 8, 2009